CIO Magazine has a new issue entitled “The State of The CIO ’06.” Oddly, while it is already on my desk the issue has not made it to their web site yet. I have a special interest in the importance of the CIO job. I have served as both a CIO and...

New week, new software. They are still propagating across Microsoft's external servers so the links may not work for an hour or so. How is that for fresh from the oven? WinFX December CTP and the SDK and Visual Studio Extensions codenamed 'Orcas'....

Socket programming can be tough and complicated. If you are reading this because you are trying to decide on a communication mechanism for your new project then let me save you some reading. Stick with something else if you can. Web Services gives...

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We are currently working on Beta 2 of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) . For details on our release schedule you should read the official corporate information or contact your Microsoft representative. I thought outsiders would be interested in the development...

The author of this post argues the point that email is dead and that IM is the solution. I disagree. There are two elements of email that made it become a dominant form of communication in such a short period of time. It allows us to communicate asynchronously...